[f. BRAY v.1]
† 1. Loud or harsh crying, hoarse shouting. Obs.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccclxxiv. 119 b. A mans voyce the which may have dyvers impedimentes as horsnes, brayenge.
1576. Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 121. With too much and too violent braying out.
2. The crying of various animals, now esp. of the ass. Hence contemptuously of the human voice.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 47. Brayynge yn sownde, barritus.
1590. Greene, Never too late (1600), 28. The young Tigers follow the braying of their olde sire.
1684. trans. Agrippa’s Van. Arts, cii. 363. The untuneable braying of Asses.
1826. Scott, Woodst. (1832), 177. At the braying of the first wild ass.
3. Of musical instruments.
1704. Rowe, Ulyss., I. i. 63. The Braying of the Minstrel’s Noise.
1884. Leisure Hour, June, 374/1. The braying and droning of trumpets and bagpipes.
